University Grants Commission
Commission on standards of higher education streams in india
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| April 13 2022 | UGC India announced a policy allowing students to simultaneously complete two academic programmes, in line with the National Education Policy 2020. |
| February 2022 | M. Jagadesh Kumar, a professor from IIT Delhi and former VC of JNU, was appointed as the chairman of the UGC. |
| 2020 | Ministry of Human Resource Development was renamed to 'Ministry of Education'. |
| 2019 | The HECI bill was reworked to gain political consensus after facing strong opposition in its initial form. |
| 2019 | The proposed bill to dissolve UGC was reworked to gain political consensus after initial opposition. |
| June 27 2018 | Ministry of Human Resource Development announced plans to repeal the UGC Act, 1956, with a proposed bill to dissolve the UGC and form the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI). |
| December 2015 | Government of India established the National Institutional Ranking Framework under UGC to rank all educational institutes by April 2016. |
| 2011 | The Higher Education and Research (HE&R) Bill was proposed, aiming to replace the UGC with a National Commission for Higher Education & Research (NCHER), which would absorb other academic agencies. |
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